South Pole

  need for guidelines 191–2

  possible motivations 177–8

  reactions to 176–7, 179

  tourist numbers 192

  well-established industry 186

  tourists 174, 179–80, 190, 191, 194

  Transantarctic Mountains 48, 99, 100–101, 102, 121

  transport 181–2

  ‘Tumbleweed’, NASA robot 129

  twilight 17, 114

  ‘unassisted’ vs ‘unsupported’ 183

  United States

  occupation basis for claim 143

  presence 82, 138, 147–8

  universe expansion 131

  U.S. Antarctic Artists and Writers Program 163–4

  Vaughan, Norman D. 181

  vegetation 117, 120

  Verne, Jules 33, 44–5

  Virgil 35

  vortex myth 35, 40, 50–51

  Vostok (Russian station) 102, 108, 134–5, 144, 144, 149

  waste removal 87, 87, 192

  water usage 87

  Weddell, James 58–9

  West Antarctica 99, 124

  whales 116

  whaling 141–2

  Wilkes, Charles 59, 152

  Wilkins, Hubert 77–8

  Wilson, Edward 61–2, 70, 115, 154

  wind speed 105, 108

  wintering personnel 60–61, 90–94

  With Byrd to the South Pole (film) 79

  women 90–91, 90, 180, 194–5